recipes

I love pickles. When I was a kid and my dad made our school lunches, he would wrap pickle quarters with a slice of bologna and American cheese and hold everything in place with a toothpick. My brother and I would each get three of these. And in the summer, my brother and I would […]

I usually spend Sunday afternoon cooking my lunches for the following week. Typical dishes include corned beef, chili con carne, arroz con pollo, or chicken salad. But this weekend, I made an amazing bolognese sauce. It’s somewhat adapted from this recipe in the SF Chronicle. Here’s my version: Beef and Pork Bolognese Sauce 2 cups

I spent a few weekends in LA for a little vacation and activities surrounding a friend’s wedding (more on that trip in another post), so I’d missed out on the last three Sunday Heart of the City Farmers’ Markets. This is my favorite farmers’ market in San Francisco. I find the Ferry Building market too

I have to admit that I’m not a huge Oreos fan, but this recipe for homemade Oreos at Smitten Kitchen looked too good to not try. They were incredible – the way a cookie sandwich should taste. I used Strauss butter and Dagoba cocoa to make this treat a little more upscale (not that I’m

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